Pupate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 68 anagrams from letters in pupate (aepptu).
First recorded in 1875-80; pup(a) + -ate1
pupate, Pupation: to become a pupa: the act of becoming a pupa.
The larvae then bore their way out of the fruit and drop to the soil where they pupate.
It molts three times, and in from twelve to twenty days is ready to pupate, or change to a chrysalis.
That caterpillar did not, however, pupate, or survive the winter.
The larv feed upon the foliage until about July first and then crawl to the ground in which they form cells and pupate.
The larvae complete their growth in four or five weeks when they enter the ground to pupate.
They pupate underground in an earthen cell, from which the adult beetle crawls out and flies up to the tree-tops.
As soon as the larv have completed their development they pupate.
Here they molt again, or pupate as it is called, changing to a non-feeding, quiescent stage called the pupal stage.
When ready to pupate they go a short distance into the ground.